The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Geoffrey Bolton Late nineteenth-century Australia claimed one of the world's highest standards of living and was seen as one of the most successful examples of the transplantation of British culture. Yet beneath the surface prosperity, there lay a great deal of uncertainty and conflict, including clashes among churches, the crash of the 1890s, pressure for federation, and the challenging of traditional views of education, women's roles, and the family. This volume takes a skeptical look at many of the common perceptions of Australia in the Victorian era, concentrating on human values rather than on the rhetoric of national achievement. |
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... punishment , and permitted , if they wished , to leave Western Australia as long as they did not return to Britain . Thus they ceased to be tractable labour ; nor did the British government accept any financial responsibility for them ...
... punishment , and permitted , if they wished , to leave Western Australia as long as they did not return to Britain . Thus they ceased to be tractable labour ; nor did the British government accept any financial responsibility for them ...
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... punished by both whip- ping and imprisonment . The ' severity of these penalties seems to have had no parallel ... punishment for rape , was probably a direct con- sequence of the absence of ecclesiastical courts . Whipping was 170 ...
... punished by both whip- ping and imprisonment . The ' severity of these penalties seems to have had no parallel ... punishment for rape , was probably a direct con- sequence of the absence of ecclesiastical courts . Whipping was 170 ...
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... punishment 167 , 169-70 Carcoar 200 capital 38 , 40 , 249 , 268-9 Cardwell 7-8 , 17 , 136 Carlyle , Thomas 102 Caron , Leon 227 , 234 Carpenter , W. R. 294 cartoonists 221 Catalpa 125 Catholic church authoritarianism 82-3 , 84-5 impact ...
... punishment 167 , 169-70 Carcoar 200 capital 38 , 40 , 249 , 268-9 Cardwell 7-8 , 17 , 136 Carlyle , Thomas 102 Caron , Leon 227 , 234 Carpenter , W. R. 294 cartoonists 221 Catalpa 125 Catholic church authoritarianism 82-3 , 84-5 impact ...
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